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they lose it with their aides and everyone in a situation that intense is going to have moments like that. >> having worked for hillary, there were times she lost it and she totally deserved to lose it because somebody really screwed up. >> you can catch "disrupt" weekends at 4:00 p.m. eastern. thank you, both. that was fun. that's all for this evening. the "rachel maddow show" starts now. >> i'm still trying to figure out why that particular dog would be all that lucky. you know what i'm saying? >> oh, my god, you've now brought back the image i've tried to banish all day. >> i'm stuck with it, i can't get to brain bleach for an hour. >> have a good weekend. >> you too. >> good luck. we've got a lot going on tonight. this is one of those days when it is a friday and you would expect with congress out of session and politics kind of on hold for the day and the fact that it's friday in the day after halloween there wouldn't be that much going on, but the day ended up being a very busy news day. and it was a busy news day
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dominated most of the late part of the day by a shooting incident that happened at l.a.x., at los angeles international airport. a man reported to be a 23-year-old from los angeles walked into terminal three and pulled out a rifle started firing at tsa employees. there were points he said things about tsa. he killed one tsa worker and wounded as many as three others before he himself was shot in the chest and taken into custody. he's reported to be in critical condition in the hospital. law enforcement sources tell the l.a. times that authorities found a note next to the shooter in which he expressed, quote, his disappointment with the government. nbc news reporting that the shooter sent a suicidal text to his family before entering the airport where he apparently started shooting. again, though, the shooter is alive in critical condition and in custody.
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l.a.x. is a mess in terms of flight cancellations and delays and thousands of passengers getting stranded. this is a story we'll be following through the night as we learn more. please keep watching this space for news. here's the background, when george w. bush picked harriet mier meyers, he was showing trademark loyalty. he was also particularly happy to have found a woman he trusted for that job since the seat she was going to be filling on the court would be the one vacated by the retiring justice sandra day o'connor. now the harriet miers nomination didn't work out. outside conservative groups had weighed in against the bush administration and told them that harriet myers was not right wing enough for the court and
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the bush administration caved and decided to take back the president's choice that is how it seemed at the time, how it was reported in the time. but in peter baker's new book "days of fire," he reports that story, the way it actually happened is not at all the way it reported. the bush administration knew those groups weren't going to be happy when they picked harriet m miers. it could be a show of strength against people on their own side who might try to bully then on an important issue. now, the real reason that harriet miers nomination fell apart because when george w. bush picked her for the united states supreme court, he forgot to check into whether she actually knew stuff about the law. to prepare for the confirmation hearings, harriet miers invited several lawyers to her second floor office, they sat down in
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her panelled office and tried some practice questions on her. one white house lawyer quizzed her on criminal law. when you search a car, do you think the law is correct that all you need is reasonable suspicion versus probable cause? >> harriet miers looked hesitant and confused. quote, i don't know what either of those two mean, she admitted. the lawyers were shocked. when it comes to the highest court in the land this was as basic as it gets. if she could not handle the most fundamental terminology, how would she survive under the senate hearing. they went through more questions and discovered how little she knew. the fourth amendment on search and seizure, the fifth amendment on self-incrimination, quote, she literally knew nothing about it at all, nothing, one official recalled. so in the press, at the time, the conservative movement claimed they got their scalp when the nomination fell apart and an interesting decision by the bush administration for them to take the hit themselves and give the conservative movement
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kudos they didn't deserve. think about how much worse it would have been if people would've known the truth if people had known that president bush thought that a supreme court seat should go to somebody who didn't know what search and seizure meant. that he'd look around the room and pick the person closest to him. hey, didn't you go to law school? you'll work. there were a lot of things that were really terrible about the george w. bush administration, but the way he dealt with legal issues is an underappreciated and ongoing disaster. beyond the marquee memorable nightmares like the harriet miers nomination and john ashcroft as attorney general, beyond the household names, the guys who were never household names are also still amazing in retrospect. president bush put this guy in charge of the office of legal council, in charge of giving the president advice on whether or not his actions are legal. >> the hand-in decision
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implicitly does recognize that we're in a war, that the president's war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country and that law of war paradigm applies. that's what the whole case was -- >> the president was talking about the nuances of the law of war are paradigm. he was saying this was going to tell him whether he could keep guantanamo open or not after what he said, they said he could. was the president right or was he wrong? >> it's under the law of war. >> was the president right or was he wrong? >> the president is always right. >> the president is what now? it's amazing for anybody to think the president is always right despite virtue of him being president. but when you're in charge of the office that adjudicates that as a real question for the white house, you cannot have that belief. it's like being a color blind painter. dude, that's the one thing you can't believe. people actually ask you when the president is right. you cannot have that belief. but that is who george w. bush put in charge of the office of legal council.
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in arkansas he nominated to be federal judge the former president of arkansas right to life. who said if you favored abortion rights you're like a nazi. he's the one that wrote concern for rape victims is a red herring because conceptions from rape occur with the same frequency of snowfall in miami. he should be a judge. then there was jay bybee famous nationally only for authored the memo of bybee. it's a lifetime appointment. he's not going anywhere. to torture guy. republicans now filibuster everything in the senate. they require a 60-vote supermajority for everything down to the level of naming post offices. and their beltway argument of justifying that is, well, you know, under george w. bush, democrats used the filibuster a lot. yeah, democrats definitely used it under president bush, but not for every piece of normal business in the senate. they used it to try to block the
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kind of amazing nominations that george w. bush made on legal issues. like, for example, priscilla owen. priscilla owen had been in the texas supreme court alongside alberto gonzalez. and even a fellow bushy had denounced her on the court for what he called her unconscionable judicial activism against reproductive rights. about whether or not a teenage girl could get an abortion that she wanted. saying the girl should be quizzed about whether or not she understood religious objections to the girl getting an abortion. if she could not articulate religious grounds against her having an abortion then texas should not allow her to get one. that was too much for even alberto gonzalez who filed a special concurring opinion to point out how freaking nuts that was. but when george w. bush, nevertheless, picked priscilla owen for a lifetime appointment for the federal bench, her
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hometown paper was horrified. here's how they started their editorial about her nomination. they said earlier this month, 44 u.s. senators refused to go along on a vote that would've ended a filibuster on the nomination of priscilla owen for the fifth circuit. good, owens' judicial record shows less interest in impartially interpreting the law. citing her demeanor unbecoming of a judge, saying she contorted rulings to her outlook. the houston chronicle said anyone willing to look at her record would be hard pressed to deny she ruled to achieve a particular result rather than impartially interpreting the law. and the austin-american statesman was worse describing her as so conservative she places herself outside the broad mainstream of jurisprudence. she seems willing to bend the law to fit her views rather than the reverse. and those were just the texas papers.
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when it was democrats instead of the republicans, it was over stuff like this, judicial nominees like her. it wasn't over 60 votes for everything in the senate for these kind of shock nominations. but it was in the big nuclear option filibuster showdown that happened in the senate in 2005. the deal was struck, and that deal got them a new handshake agreement over who could be filibustered and who couldn't be. as part of that deal, democrats agreed to give up their objections to priscilla owen and to another justice named janice rogers brown. janice rogers brown was out of california when she was nominated as a judge, she been rated not qualified by the state bar of california. also gave speeches saying the minimum wage and social security were evidence of a successful socialist revolution in america. democrats were wildly opposed to nominees this out there getting lifetime appointments to the
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federal bench but they made this deal with republicans and as part of that deal, these judges and a few others got through. these are the two judges, priscilla owen and janice rogers brown who have written the bombshell rulings on reproductive rights. one that shut down the abortion clinics in the state of texas and gave republicans their biggest victory yet in their war on birth control. the ruling today that your boss gets to decide whether or not contraceptive is covered under your health insurance, that was authored by janice socialist revolutionist rogers brown. declaring now to have no texas abortion provider within 500 miles of her. that ruling was written by priscilla owen. both of these rulings will surely be appealed and may end up at the united states supreme court. but that one day back in 2005,
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that one fateful political decision in late may 2005 ultimately gave rise to both of these rulings today by giving rise to both of these judges. on the day it happened in 2005, steve bennan writing when he was a small child back in 2005, basically saw all of this coming, describing that deal, he wrote about janice rogers brown and priscilla owen as awful nominees who had been cleared for the bench saying, quote, they will soon take their lifetime positions on the federal appeals bench which is a genuine travesty. joining us now, senior editor and legal correspondent at slate. thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so you wrote -- you co-wrote a piece this evening at "slate" that headlines these rulings today as body blows to reproductive rights. why do you think these rulings are so serious? and do you think it's the end of the road or we should expect important appeals?
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>> i think both of these will be appealed clearly. what we're seeing in the fifth circuit, the ruling about texas is in conflict with a whole bunch of other judges who looked at this, you know, question about whether physicians had to have admitting privileges within a couple of miles. everyone else pretty much strikes it down. so now you have the fifth circuit saying i think they're going to win at trial. that's how good this argument s is. it doesn't burden women, it kind of incidentally burdens women, but as long as they can get an abortion somewhere, some place, it's okay. that's obviously on a collision course with other rulings coming out of jurisdictions and the case that janice rogers brown decided today is already percolating up, there's a bunch of cases splits between the circuits about whether, in fact, for profit secular corporations are going to be allowed to declare their individual
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personal religious conscience, whatever that is, is offended by the birth control mandates. these cases, i think the latter is going to come to the court as this term, it's being determined right now. and i think the other one is coming quickly. >> in terms of that contraception ruling, the idea of -- i mean, i guess we all got used to the idea of corporations sort of having the rights of persons when it comes to contributing to political campaigns. if corporations have religious liberty rights, even if you just stick to -- that seems to have -- that seems to have big implications, but even if you stick to health care, doesn't that mean that like if you were a christian science and you led a corporation -- if you were christian scientist and you led a corporation, you could insist that your employees get health coverage that covers nothing? >> yeah. i mean, i think it's quite clear that the slippery slope that says that if the corporations owners, assuming that there's
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all of the owners are in perfect religious alignment themselves but if their religious views can sort of be imported on to this corporation and then ripple down to effect decisions about everyone who works for the corporation regardless of their religious conscience preferences, then, yeah, i think the slippery slope goes exactly the way that you pause it. and one of the things that's so strange about the janice rogers brown opinion that comes out of d.c. today is that it's almost just a given to her that corporations can have -- can be effectively people under the religious freedom act that is being invoked here. so it's almost as though, well, if they had speech rights, i guess they can have a religious conscience too. and we can talk about it like it's wacky, but she's not the first judge who has agreed to this principle. and i think it's really, really profound that we now are in a situation where courts of
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appeals are more solicitous of the religious conscience rights of a for profit corporation than they are of the reproductive rights of honest to goodness human beings. >> wow. dahlia, in congress this week republicans are filibustering a nomination president obama has made for the bench in the d.c. circuit, is the president putting up enough of a fight and the right kind of fight on these issues given that we know how important they are? even years down the road? >> you know, you said it in your intro, rachel, and it's so true. i think we absolutely underestimate that president george w. bush's real legacy was that he fundamentally changed the federal bench. probably for years and years to come. i mean he really did leave office having seated younger, more conservative federalist society members. you know, these people are as you said each and every one of them, you know, walking the walk. and obama had the option to
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respond to each of those appo t appointments we equally strong, card carrying aclu, bomb-throwing, janice rogers brown of the left. he really has opted not to. he's done it very, very little. he tends to favor more centrist, moderate, confirmable jurists. and what we saw with patricia millet, yesterday even the most centrist, she's an army spouse, litigated on behalf of corporations, she's really, really not thurgood marshall, and yet she is unconfirmable. and so i think that obama sort of made this tactical decision that change shouldn't happen at the courts, it should happen at the legislative level. that's always been his stated purpose. but i think change does happen at the courts. and to the extent that he hasn't answered that is problematic. >> aiming low sort of ideologically has not paid off in him getting more people moved. just means you aim for less and you get less. it's amazing. important stuff.
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thanks for helping us understand what's going on. it's great to see you. >> thanks, rachel. coming up. a guy who was long thought to be dead now finally is dead. a park in new orleans gets the surprise of its life. and working in congress gets to be a better and better and better job all the time. lots ahead. turns out it's a big news day. stay with us. in the nation, we know how you feel about your car.
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was the new leader. it was an amazing headline that day. they've named their new leader but we're pretty sure he's dead. so that was summer of 2009. turns out he was not dead. he was their new leader. then in the fall of that year, again, counterterrorism officials insist he's dead, dead in a drone strike. he was not dead then either. so in the summer of '09, they said he was dead and he wasn't dead. later in 2009 they said he was dead and he wasn't dead. in 2010, in january 2010, again, officials say he's dead, we killed him. but he wasn't dead then either. then a second time later that same month, january 2010, pakistan announces that he's dead again. but, again, he is not dead, he's definitely not dead. then january of last year, one more time, he's dead, they announced he was dead last january. but, again, for the fifth time reports of his death were an exaggeration. and all along, every single time he was reported to be dead, the leader of the taliban in pakistan seemingly enjoyed
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calling around to let everybody know he was still here. he'd put out a new videotape or release a new audio message. one time he even called the bbc personally to say, not dead, i'm still here, you should take down that story. now, apparently, though, he's dead. he seems to be actually dead. in each of the many, many, many previous times that pakistan or the united states or unnamed officials insisted he was dead, the taliban itself always insisted that he wasn't dead. this time they're making no such protests. this time, they agree he's dead and, in fact, they're saying his funeral is on saturday. there was a $25 million bounty on the head of osama bin laden, you'll remember. there's now a $25 million bounty on the head of bin laden's replacement, al zawahiri. but this guy, who was just killed, the head of the pakistani taliban, he was right up there, the rewards for justice program had a $5 million
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price on his head. they consider him to be the author of thousands of deaths in pakistan. they put the $5 million bounty on his head after he oversaw the triple agent plot in eastern afghanistan where seven cia officers were killed in a devastating surprise suicide bombing. in this video you'll see here, the guy on the right side of your screen, that's the bomber that killed all the cia officers. they thought he was a spy against the taliban. that's why the officers agreed to meet with him, but he wasn't against the taliban. they thought they had turned him, but they hadn't and he was the suicide bomber. this videotape right here is the martyr dom video tape he made. and the guy sitting next to him in beige, that's the head of the pakistani taliban who apparently was finally killed today after many previous reports he was dead that were not true. now, the keyword here in his apparent death is apparent. evidence seems to indicate, though, this time they really got him. we do not know for sure, but it seems like they finally did.
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youtube and they all sound like that. and maybe it's because scissors and clippers are scary. maybe sitting still is unsettling when there are scissors near to your ears. maybe because kids understand things can go terribly wrong in an instant. so pity the box wood plant which cannot cry to alert its parents that something scary is happening nearby. the sixth largest park in the nation is in new orleans, sports stadium, botanical garden, museum of art, 11 miles worth of waterways in which you can fish at the park. it's an awesome public park which is well used by new orleanians. there was even a box wood topiary at the park. plants carved into beautiful letters which have long spelled out the name of the park to see.
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c-i-t-y park, in topiary, until this week, oh, my, t-y park. this happened this week. a new orleans gardener had a little bout of overzealous this week while in the course of trimming the famous topiary, he just started in on the "c" and "i" couldn't stop himself, lopped them right off and everybody was very embarrassed and apologetic. here's the park spokesman saying, quote, that would have been called a mistake. you know how when you go into surgery and they write on your leg, cut this leg, not that leg, we probably should've done something like that. and you know what, eventually it will turn out fine, more box woods apparently have been located, the park is replanting the "c" and "i." in the meantime, that poor gardener could probably use a few days off and a job to come back to. if you were a member of congress, he surely could.
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2013 is an odd-numbered year which means it's an off/off year for politics. not a midterm year, not a presidential year, it's an off/off year. it is november. and there are a bunch of elections on tuesday, next week, november 5th, just four days from now. and the nice thing about that in an off/off year if you're a politics dork because we don't have all that many elections happening in a year like this, the number of races that are going on that are interesting and potentially politically important is small enough that it's possible to keep them all in your head at once. you don't even need notes. new jersey has the republicans race on tuesday, chris christie versus barbara buono. even though this week he admitted publicly he will not promise to actually serve out his term as governor. so his closing argument now is effectively, elect me even though i don't totally want the job and i can't say i won't quit half way through. still, though, the governor was
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up by 33 points in the most recent poll. the one interesting thing to watch in new jersey is if that big margin holds on election day, what are the down ballot consequences be of that in the state? new jersey democrats have an eight-seat majority in the senate. republicans are hoping that if christie wins big on tuesday that might have pro-republican consequences down the ballot in the state senate to whittle away at the democrats' majority. the senate is also the thing in washington state where a race for one specific senate seat is turning out to be fascinatingly expensive. republicans right now in washington control the state senate but it's really close and their control is only possible thanks to a couple of people crossing party lines to caucus with the other side. if democrat can defeat the republican on tuesday, democrats are thinking that will put them on a path to flip the state senate back to democratic control. because of those high stakes,
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this one senate race has turned out to be the most expensive legislative race ever in the history of washington state. everybody from planned parenthood on the left to the n ra on the right has been pouring money into that. graduated from college when he was 17 years old, then he became a lawyer, then after that, he became a doctor. he's only 30 years old now, he's already been a doctor and a lawyer and now he's running for office. i spent my late 20s doing landscaping and driving a delivery vehicle, how about you? anyway, there's not a ton of polling available in that very important washington state race, but both sides told the washington post recently their own internal polling on both sides makes it look basically like a tie. that's the washington 26 race, that's going to be fascinating to watch next week. hundreds of cities also picking their mayors next week including miami, boston and new york. in miami, the candidate with the most potential to unseat the incumbent dropped out back in
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august because he was wife was going to have a baby and honestly because his campaign was kind of a wreck. but with that competition for the sitting mayor out of the way, the smart money in miami says the incumbent republican mayor is likely to stay in that job after next week's elections. the boston mayoral race is very close separating the candidates, both candidates are democrats. this is the first time in two decades where there's no incumbent mayor running in boston. then there's new york city where michael bloomberg presumably cannot believe what he's seeing right now. after running new york as a republican mayor for six years and an independent for six years after that, michael bloomberg is now leaving office with the democratic candidate running to replace him leading the republican by almost 40 points. in a recent poll, 65% of new yorkers said they'd vote for bill de blasio over lhota. if those numbers hold on election day, de blasio would
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win by the widest margin ever for a nonincumbent. and, of course, there's virginia. my beloved virginia, the other governor's race this year besides new jersey. the virginia race has appeared to be leaning very strongly in favor of the democratic candidate with the washington post poll as of monday putting terry mcauliffe over cuccinelli by 20 points. women preferring mcauliffe by 24 points. but then two days ago, a new poll released which shows a much, much closer contest for virginia governor. in the poll, he's still in the lead but only by four points now. for a candidate who has nod led a poll outright since he led exactly one back in mid july, ken cuccinelli being down by four in october represents an epic surge, a cuccinelli surge
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which sounds like an fcc violation. and he might actually be closing the gap. what does that mean? john stanton is joining us washington bureau chief at buzz feed. thank you for being here tonight. >> good to be here. >> do you see a way that ken cuccinelli surprises everyone and scratches out a win here? >> yeah, sure. if his staff lets him out of the box they're keeping him in, yes, sure, i think that would allow him to start talking and say things that would probably hurt his candidacy. other than some major gaffe on his part, no, i don't think, he's looking at a win at this point. >> at this point, so much of the attention on sort of what's wrong and interesting about this race is how people seem to be planning to vote against one of the other candidates they're planning to vote at all. everybody expects low turnout on both sides. said they're not endorsing anybody and they think people
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should write in a guy who is not running and has no chance. >> yeah. >> not exactly, you know, inspiring democratic moment. >> no, it's not. you know, this whole race has been sort of fascinating. and i think most people look at terry mcauliffe and say how is he close to winning a race? he was an attack dog for years. he made his name being a very controversial partisan figure. and yet now in a state that is very much a divided state, he looks like he's going to become the governor. and i think a lot of that comes down to how poorly cuccinelli's campaign has been run, the difficulties, the down ballot problems with ew jackson. and i think this is sort of the fascinating bit of electoral train wreck on all sides to watch. >> i've got to say, the most -- the biggest gift of terry mcauliffe other than the fact he's a scarily capable fundraiser, and that helps, is that he's running against ken
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cuccinelli. and i wonder, though, because he got the gig -- became the nominee essentially by screwing over the party establishment, getting -- maneuvering his way into being chosen at a party convention instead of through a primary, alienating the establishment in the process. obviously there's no love lost between him and bob mcdonnell, the scandal ridden governor he's trying to replace. is there something to be said about the organizational capacity of each side. seems like the democratic party will have no problem getting people out. does cuccinelli have an organization to call on on his side? >> he does have an organization. and i think a lot of the conservative groups are supporting him and they will turn people out. but, you know, democrats over the last couple of elections, particularly the presidential elections have very much refined their turnout operations in virginia. you know, they figured out ways to get very marginal voters and
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very, very marginal parts of the state to turn out when they figured, well, my neighbors aren't going to be voting for barack obama. there's no chance he's going to win my district in my precinct or whatever there's not much reason to go and found ways to convince people to go to the polls. i think that's a huge advantage for them. you pointed out the establishment within the party on the republican side. there's not a lot of love lost there. >> i think we saw similar dynamic with that with sharon engel in nevada where she didn't have what remained of the republican party behind her and on election day she underperformed the polls because there was nobody there. it's going to be fascinating to watch on tuesday. i'm sorry i ditched you on wednesday because i had to watch the red sox. >> that's all right. >> appreciate it, man, all right. if you have ever wished you could work half the days everybody else worked but still call it a full-time job and get paid for a full-time job, i have career advice for you. you're probably going to need to
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during the 2012 presidential campaign, mitt romney had a problem. i mean, obviously mitt romney had a lot of problems, but he had one particular problem when he picked paul ryan who was nationally famous at that point for one thing, for being the
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budget guy who wanted to kill medicare. paul ryan released budget after budget after budget over a period of years that called for the dismantling of medicare. and mitt romney didn't want to be known as the presidential candidate wanting to kill medicare. so the romney camp came up with a solution, i'm rubber, you're glue solution. look, mitt romney claims president obama will end medicare. oh, he'll -- i see. problem solved. in politics, this is a classic. when you're getting attacked for something, just accuse your opponent of being guilty of the same thing. whatever the attack is, if it's sticking to you, just apply those words in a substantively meaningless way to whoever's saying it about you so it seems to start seem confusing to people or the words losing their meaning. it's in that tradition that last night came to this. look. rachel maddow mocked rand paul for plagiarism, but she's been accused of it too. this article on the conservative website which includes input
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from senator paul's representatives and even a statement from a rand paul adviser presents no evidence at all of plagiarism by the show. the closest it gets to accusing the show of plagiarism is noting other people on the internet made similar analogies in stories to the news we covered. but look at the headline, maddow's guilty of it too. i'm rubber, you're glue. so sure, senator, sure sources close to rand paul, you can try to make this whole problem for yourself about me, try to make me the story, go for it, good luck, i can take it. but you are going to have to i'm rubber, you're glue, a lot of other people than me because there's more people than me who have reported this factual, checkable information about what you've done wrong that you still haven't owned up to, you haven't apologized for, you haven't said you will fix. you're going to need a bigger brush if you're going to tar all of us. after our original report on monday, buzzfeed reported another example of rand paul
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plagiarizing in a speech. today the beltway newspaper "politico" has revealed two more instances of rand paul plagiarizing. pointed to a 2013 speech by rand paul in which he responded to president obama's state of the union address, also another speech at of the state address. and senator paul plagiarized a portion of this ap article that reads, quote, the ranks of america's poor swell to almost one in six people last year, reaching a new high as long-term unemployment left millions of americans struggling and out of work. that's straight from the associated press. here's rand paul. >> the ranks of america's poor have swelled to almost one in six people. we are now at an all-time high in long-term unemployment, millions of americans are struggling and out of work. >> so it's not just wikipedia anymore, it's also the associated press. and what was kind of a high-profile speech for him. the other example politico discovered is from howard university in april.
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senator paul appears to have plagiarized a passage of that speech from a conservative group called focus on the family. so wikipedia multiple times, the associated press, and now the conservative press, it was their newsletter, that's the tally so far that we know of. now rand paul is no longer saying this is just a bunch of nonsense from rachel maddow, that hater. which is what he said on wednesday. staffers for senator paul are now saying, quote, going forward he will be more cautious in presenting and attributing sources, even though they are still not admitting any blame. right around the same time rand paul's staff finally started to concede that maybe they will do something different in the future, mysteriously the rachel maddow is a plagiarist and has a war on women thing came down off of the drudge report where it has been prominently featured for a few hours. so nice try, though. this is called running from your mistakes. i mean, the story has gone from bad to worse for senator paul. i think because he basically refused to take responsibility for what he did.
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it's not the worst thing to be accused of. you cheated, you stole stuff from wikipedia, high school students have done it and go to detention. there's no tension for senators so instead you say, sorry, i screwed up and don't do it again. blame an intern. instead of saying his staff screwed up and explaining how it happened, senator paul refused to comment to anybody, including his hometown newspaper. then he started smearing the people who brought the story to light, because of that refusal to own up to what happened, we now know this is not just a wikipedia thing. he has a thing for plagiarizing from all sorts of different places. this seems like a bigger problem than it first appeared, which now means it is going to require more of an explanation. across america people are taking charge
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happy friday. it has been a long week, but if you're week has been tough, spare a thought for your poor member of congress. the house of representatives had to work two-and-a-half days this week. they are freaking fried. to try to recover from their two-and-a-half long day workweek this week, the house is taking a break. they are not going to work at all next week. they won't be back to work until after veteran's day. in fact, the only day of work they have planned in november is two four-day weeks, and that's it. the republicans took over the house, when john boehner became speaker, they planned from the beginning that they would work as little as possible. when they got sworn in in 2011 the republican leadership set new rules for how much congress would work. eric cantor's plan was to give everybody a week off for every two weeks at work. work two, get one free. it was a major change from how democrats had run the house, but the republicans from the get-go were committed to working less. since then, though, since they have been in charge and set those rules, they have fallen
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even below those low initial expectations that they set for themselves. between right now and the end of the year, the republican leadership in congress has planned exactly 16 total days of work. 16 days of work in two months. but the awkward thing about that schedule for the republican leadership is not that they are working too few days, the problem that they have is they don't know what to do with the days that they do have to go to work. they are according to politico.com, quote, struggling to come up with an agenda to fill the handful of days they are planning to work over the next two months. their proposed solution so far is to consider giving themselves more vacation. they're in talks of canceling some of their remaining days in session. because, you know, nothing to do. in the middle of all this, in the middle of mulling whether or not they should take more time off this year, republicans have just announced their new schedule for next year. they looked at the calendar, looked at their agenda and announced next year the house will be in session for the entire year for a grand total of 113 days.
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significantly less than half of the working days in the year will be days they actually work. that's less than they work this year. this is the least productive congress on record in america. and they're going to work less. this is what working 113 days per year looks like on a calendar. shaded days are work days, everything else is not. nice, right? thank you, eric cantor. now on one hand these guys get paid a minimum of $174,000 a year to work this schedule, which is ridiculous. on sunny side, though, given what they have been doing while in washington, maybe we should be grateful when they are there less. if you don't come to work, maybe that's less time to work on destroying the government that you technically work in. well n honor of our house of representative that is not only does not work, they don't like to work and they rarely show up for it, and in honor of my great pride and excitement of being on the simpsons this weekend, it is appropriate to celebrate and learn the great lazy old man drink. take it away, moe. >> hello, moe's tavern,
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birthplace of the rob roy. >> is seymour there, last name butts. >> just a sec, is there a butts here? seymour butts? hey, everybody, i want to seymour buds. >> moe's tavern, birthplace of the rob roy, the recipe for the rob roy. maybe born at moe's tavern. you want blended scotch, two and a quarter ounces. like this. you want sweet vermut th, aka, italian, the red kind. three quarters of an ounce. like this. very simple, very easy. then you want orange bitters, which used to be hard to find, but now you can get them all over the place. orange bitters. don't use angus if you can't find orange bitters because it makes a whole different thing that you won't like. and then stir. and that's it. there's no additional garnish. there's nothing i have to shout
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at you that you're not allowed to eat. it's just the greatest old man drink of all time. and because it's so easy, it's particularly good for lazy old man, which is what we all aspire to, especially when we see how eric cantor has set up the schedule for the house of representatives. it's been a long week but not a bad one. now it's time for "up late with alex baldwin." have a great time. stay with us. thank you, rachel. i have been looking forward to this since before we even launched the show. tonight i'll talk with two men who contributed to a singular work of art 45 years ago that still moves a film audience to this day and change the way we think about the world, our place in it and our place beyond it. every actor, myself included, spends their career striving to make one movie, just one, that achieves true immortality. i love stanley cooper's 2001 "space ys